GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
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| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| savant | a person of learning |